Lesson video

Welcome to today's citizenship lesson.

We've been looking at a series of lessons on what are our identities and communities.

And today's lesson is number three of six and we are looking at what are communities like.

My name is Mrs. Barry, and I'm going to be taking your lesson review today.

So this lesson, you will need a brain, which hopefully you've already got with you.

Something to write with such as a pen or a pencil and something to write on such as paper.

So once you've got all that together, then we already just start our lesson.

So in today's lesson, we're going to be looking at this overarching question of what our communities like.

We're going to start today's lesson by defining what a community is.

Then we're going to have a look at what makes up a community.

So what you might see within a community and then key features of a community.

So what are the important essential bits you need to form a community? And they will do some activities to make sure that you've understood it all and that you know what communities are like.

We're going to get started by looking at community and some examples of how community has been in the news recently.

Looking at these headlines and a clip that we'll mention in a moment, you can see that the word community has popped up in a range of different ways.

So if we look at the coronavirus issue, you can see how communities reacted.

You've got London Community Response Fund receives a 12 million pound boost.

Coronavirus: Volunteers flocked to join community support groups.

and Voluntary and Community organisations praised for COVID-19 response.

And within these headlines, you can see some ideas about the importance of community.

So we have things like working together, volunteerings, that's helping other people and solving problems because often in times of crisis or in times of needs you find that people need to help one another.

And you come together and you work out a way to do that.

You may have seen examples in your own local community where people are coming together to try and help the people around them.

In the worksheet that I'd like you to go to, there is a clip that would be really good for you to have a look at.

So if you watch the video on slide two of the worksheet, I want you to think about what are they doing to help in their community, and once you finished on the worksheet, you can click previous activity and then come back and click play and we can continue with the lesson.

So an example you might have seen in there is that they're setting up food parcels and delivering them to the vulnerable.

So within the community, people came together, they decided what they needed to do, they solved a problem, and they got young volunteers and old volunteers to deliver food parcels that they collected from local support groups and helped those who were more vulnerable.

Another example here that you might remember is the Olympics in 2012, where people within the community of London came together, and worked together to volunteer and make the Olympics a success.

That's a slightly more positive event that has happened, where communities still come together.

They still work out how to solve a problem, how to ensure that a good event happens, but something becomes successful for a group of people.

What I got you to do now is to think about, what is a community? So what key term.

How can we define community as a key term? So I've given you a sentence here, given you some words and I'd like you to place the words in the correct places to come up with a definition of what is a community.

So pause the video when you're ready to start and then once you're finished, press play and we will look at it together.

Shouldn't take you any more than a minute or two to do.

So here we go, a community.

Hope you've had a chance to think about this.

A community is a group of people living or existing together, sharing common values, interests, and or ways of doing things.

Have a lots of different types of communities, so there's not just one single community, And around the world, lots of different people that follow different things and are part of different groups.

And that means that we have lots of different communities.

So each community will have a focus which brings people together as they have shared interest, it might be that they will live in the same place, which is called a neighbourhood community.

It might be that you look at your family home being a small community, and that would be a family community.

We also belong to a global community, which involves all the people around whole world.

And your friendship groups that you might have in school or at home or elsewhere would be a social community.

And that just a few examples of some of the communities that you may know you're involved in, or may not know about that are involved in.

That just to check that you've understood those different types of communities, I just want you to match up the four communities I've just been through with what they are.

So when you're ready press pause, it would take you a couple of minutes to do, have a go matching these key terms with a type of community that they are and press play when you're ready to begin.

Okay, so welcome back, hopefully you've matched those all up and we can have a look here.

So family community are people you live with.

Your social community, the group of friends.

Neighbourhood community, the people who live in the same area as you.

A global community is the fact that you are part of the whole world.

So everyone is part of that global community.

And well done for giving that a go.

We've got some different community examples here because within those communities, you will have recognised for example, we've already talked about school.

So within a school, you have friendship communities perhaps, but a school in itself is a community.

You've got online communities more recently.

You have religious communities or religious groups.

Youth groups, so you might be part of a youth group of some kind.

My examples here would be Scouts or Guides, but there are lots of other different types of youth groups available.

And hobbies or sports groups, so you might be interested in one particular sport or one particular hobby, and they will have their own community, your own group, which you can belong to.

So you might go to a football club, you might go to a dance club.

You might like chess and play chess with other people.

And that they're all communities in their own sense.

So what I want you to think about is what communities do you belong to at the moment? So we're just going to do a mind map and you can pause the video, spend about five minutes on this, coming up with as many communities that you belong to.

And once you've done that, click play and we'll continue with our lesson.

Here we go, here are some of the communities that I belong to.

So I'm a parent, so I've run some parenting groups.

I enjoy running and I belong to a running club.

I have a work place which is a school, so we would probably share that just in different ways.

I work and you go to school, your local school.

and South East, I live in the South East.

So that's a large type of neighbourhood community, but that is where I am.

So you will have similar things.

Hopefully you've got a few different communities that you belong to on your example, but this just shows you some of the things you could have on your mind maps.

What I want us to think about next is what our communities look like, because that's going to help us understand overall what a community is like.

So I'd like you to sketch an outline.

You can get as creative as you like this.

If you've got some kind of pens, you're very welcome to kind of it in, think about what buildings are there.

What types of buildings are that and what groups are there.

So in those buildings there might be communities and around those buildings there might be communities.

And a little challenge for you.

What are the key features you think make up a community? So once you draw in your local community, what is it that makes that a community? What key features make it a community? So when you're ready, you can press pause.

And then once you finished your sketch, probably take about five, 10 minutes, depending on how much detail you put into that, you can press play and we will continue with our lesson.

So this is my example of a neighbourhood community, I'm sure yours looks far superior with a better drawing.

But you might have a look at this listing.

Do you have any of these or in your community? So any sports facilities, any schools, any cafes or restaurants? A community centre that might be where groups or clubs tend to go to share some time together? You might have a place of worship.

I've got a mosque on here as one example, but of course you could have a synagogue or a church or any other type of place of worship that you could think of that's in your community.

You might have shops within your local community.

You could have a nursery for childcare for example.

And what we need to consider is how would these affect what your community is like.

Within this neighbourhood, it depends on the types of people that are living there as to what sorts of things you would have.

And so we've got a school and a play area suggesting that this community would have young people living there, needing education, needing an area for them to go and play and enjoy their leisure time.

So this impacts the type of community, what community is like, and the people within that community as well.

We all belong to a neighbourhood community.

Some of us are more involved in our neighbourhood community, and some of us are less involved.

Some of us know our neighbours, some of us don't, and that's all different ways in which you can live within a neighbourhood community.

There's no right or wrong there.

Some people know people in their neighbourhood community quite well, some people just don't.

Some people get involved and some people choose not to.

This is more common in rural communities where people know each other because it's smaller than in urban communities where it's a very large area and there are lots of people living in one place.

And that makes it more difficult to know the people around you.

There will often be shared facilities which people gather in.

Within these there may be other smaller communities so we looked at that community centre on our design of a community, thinking about your own community, and you might have Scouts or Guides or some other group meet up in those types of buildings.

A religious community would meet potentially in a religious building but not all the time, sometimes they use different community halls to meet up.

Or a smaller community might be in a school community and they would often have their own buildings within a neighbourhood community.

A greater number of facilities in a neighbourhood community allows for a greater range of shared interest.

And you might go to a community centre to take part in sport for example.

So what are our communities like? These are some of the features in the previous task I asked you to think about the features and you may have thought about some of these.

Key one there in the middle is diversity, a diverse community.

And we're going to have a look at that in more detail in a moment, but it's diverse because it's got lots of different members bringing different ideas and different values to a group.

And genuinely within a community there will be shared views, people would agree or if they don't agree, they'll discuss and come to a good conclusion that they share.

There'll be a clear focus or goal that they're towards.

That that community is aiming towards and genuinely there'll be inclusive.

So anyone who is interested or anyone who is eligible to be part of that community has a right to be part of that community and get involved.

Now diversity is similar to the concept of "different".

So everyone is different and the more types of people you have in one place the more diverse is considered to be.

The UK in particular is considered to be a diverse country, as we have lots of different cultures, ages, religions, all living in the same place.

And as a result communities in the UK are often called diverse communities.

This can be a great thing as it means actually you share different ideas and you could learn from one another and gain lots of experience from one another.

We're going to have a quick look at a clip together.

This is from the Scouts and it tells us a bit about diversity.

So while we're watching it, what does it tell us about diversity? What does it tell us about what communities are like? There around 14 million Scouts in the world.

Each one of us is different and unique.

Recognising diversity in Scouting means valuing and respecting people who are different from each other.

As a movement we aspire to have a membership that reflects the diversity of young people and adults in national our local communities where scout groups exist.

Diversity is a key principle and value of Scouting.

Encouraging diversity in Scouting means promoting respect for different ideas and perspectives, as well as understanding how differences can impact others.

Scouting is completely opposed to all forms of prejudice and discrimination.

Our movement aims to be inclusive and accessible to all young people and adults.

We want to make Scouting more meaningful and relevant in today's world by welcoming everyone.

Scouting, a movement for all.

So the Scouts is an example of it's own community and it shows they have lots of different members or people within that community.

It's inclusive and accessible and anyone can be part of it and that will tell us a bit about what communities are like.

They're inclusive, they're accessible, and anyone who wants to be part of that community, anyone with the shared interest in that particular community can be part of it.

So what are our communities like? We've already looked at those five key things but I've added in orange some different features that you need to be aware of when we look at diversity.

So within a community you're also going to have a diverse range or a different range of ages, religions, cultures, and interests.

And that just makes it all different.

So everyone comes together because of a shared view, a clear focus of goal and they become members of this one community.

And then they all become part of this inclusive group where everyone can have say in an interest in whatever is going on in that community.

So our last task that I want you to have a think about today is creating an example community.

And I've just laid out how you might do it.

So you could do it in a grid like on the screen now.

It could be a sports club or a hobby.

We're just thinking about those features of a community and what a club might look like.

So thinking about focus, would go, What is the club about? Members? Who do you think would be a member? Shared views? What types of things would they all agree on? Inclusivity? How would you make sure the club is inclusive? And diversity? How diverse do you think your community would be and why? What sorts of people might be part of your club? I don't want you to write too much about this, a sentence for each of those would be brilliant.

And it would take you anywhere between five and 10 minutes depending on how long you decide to spend on it.

But it's not meant to be too much.

Just thinking a little bit about what a club would look like with those key features,.

And when you're ready you can press pause and then you obviously once you've done the task, you can press play and we will continue with our lesson.

So well done, hopefully you've given that a good go.

This is just an example community that I've come up with based on the fact that I told you earlier on I like to go running and I'm part of a running group.

So our focus or goal of a club could be running.

So going out on shared runs and helping each other to improve.

You've got members.

Anyone can be a member but people would need a basic ability to run potentially because you are not interested in running or you don't want to run then this wouldn't be the community for you.

Shared views.

All must enjoy running and want to take part in running events.

Being inclusive because everyone could join up.

They might decide the club isn't for them later on, and that's up to you fine, but I wouldn't be in barriers or anything stopping them from joining.

And then it would be diverse because you could have any ages, any cultures, any religions, anyone who enjoys running would be able to join that community, that club.

So you've done the same and I'm sure you will have come up with your own club and your own ideas, but this just gives you an example of how you might've completed that activity.

And do you remember that communities are unique to people not everyone's going to be interested in the same thing.

So you might be part of one club that a friend is part of but actually they're part of another club you don't want to be part of.

It's the same in the sense of community.

You might not have an interest in that community.

You might not have a relationship with that community and therefore you don't have to be part of it.

It is your choice.

So that brings us to the end of our lesson on what our community is like.

We have looked at explaining what a community means looking at the definition of the word community.

We can identify what makes up a community.

You've designed your own community, thinking about your local area, your neighbourhood community.

And we have identified key features of community looking at the example of the Scouts in particular.

And then we've checked our understanding of communities by bringing that all together and putting together our own idea of a community.

I've just got one more thing that you could go away and do if you want to, it's a take away task.

I'd like you to think about what your ideal neighbourhood community would look like.

So you can design a community using the information we have looked at today and think about what would make it so great.

What features would it have? What facilities such as schools or nurseries or play areas would it have to make it brilliant? And you could draw it and then add some annotations.

And you could perhaps share those ideas with your citizenship teacher or your head teacher if you wanted to and start a conversation about what they think a good community is.

You could also share your work with Oak National.

So if you'd like to, you could ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

And that would be lovely to see some of the work that you have done.

So the last thing I need to remind you to do is just to go away and complete the exit quiz.

I've really enjoyed having our lesson together today and I look forward to doing some more citizenship lessons with you in the future.